Digitated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Digitated is an adjective meaning Having digits; characterized by digitation.
Meaning
Having digits; characterized by digitation.
More Meanings
- (botany) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole.
Example Sentences
Its massive central mountain, surmounted by many peaks, occupies a considerable area on the floor, and exhibits a digitated outline at the base.
From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose.
The other pair of limbs terminate in something that, from the single instance I experienced, seemed to resemble soft but firm antennae or, perhaps, digitated palpi--" "Feelers!"
In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include polydigital, bidigitate, tridigitate, digitiform, bidigital, multidigit.
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